Final Radio Piece: “Off the Grid”

by Tom Tenney on July 30, 2010

This is the final piece for my Radio Narratives class, a ten minute audio art/umentary entitled “Off the Grid,”  which profiles (to use the term loosely), three of my favorite art stars: Don Eng, John King, and Walter Gambin.  Special thanks to Reverend Jen for providing some miraculous VO which pulled everything together for me in my hour of need.   As always, I recommend listening with a good set of headphones. Comments and criticism are encouraged.

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Radio Piece #3: Reunion

by Tom Tenney on July 18, 2010

This is the third of four radio pieces I’ll be posting this summer.  The directive for this one was to create a piece that fit into the theme “Home” as presented on the CD put out by the Deep Wireless Festival.  I chose to document my trip back to Boston, earlier this summer, for my high school reunion at the Cambridge School of Weston.  I had recorded several hours of the reunion, not knowing if I would use it for anything, so it was a challenge to create something out of this stuff that I had recorded without idea or direction.   I’m fairly pleased with the result, although I think parts of the narration are problematic and could use some additional editing.

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Great Expectations: Another Radio Piece

by Tom Tenney on July 8, 2010

This is my second production project for my Radio Narratives class.  The assignment was to create a piece following the Snap Judgement guidelines, with one of the following titles/themes: Great Expectations, The Wizard of Oz,  or Busted.  I chose the first, and wrote a script about my romance with a young German actress back in 1986, based on my journal entries and her letters.  Thanks to Noel Dinneen and Emilie Blythe McDonald for providing voices for the young me and the young Heidi.

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‘I Didn’t Know That’ – A Collage for Radio

June 29, 2010

Share So, this is my first foray into sound art, apart from audio I’ve designed for live performance pieces. It’s the first production project for my ‘Radio Narratives’ class at The New School, a three-minute sonic collage created almost entirely from appropriated materials, mostly soundtracks from military training and educational films, and follows the guidelines [...]

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Remix Fest 2010: Bridges built, burned, & lessons learned

June 7, 2010

Share With the RE/Mixed Media Festival a week behind me and the ‘official’ post-mortem with the band a week ahead – I need to start recording the experience. Maybe it’s just snips of memory, conversations, thoughts or feelings that floated through.  A lot ‘happened,’ but this festival was something that came together between the cracks [...]

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The Ethnic Slurs: Love Comes in Spurts

June 4, 2010

Share Just recovered an old cassette tape of my high school band from about 1982 (I was 17), The Ethnic Slurs, most famous for playing the basement of my mom’s place outside Boston.   Here we do a cover of the Voidoids’ classic, Love Comes in Spurts, with David Olem on crazy vocals, David Barker on [...]

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The Influence of Art and Performance on the Rise of American Independent Cinema

May 20, 2010
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Share NOTE:  Written for ‘American Independent Cinema’ class at The New School; May 5, 2010. The Influence of Art and Performance on the Rise of Independent Cinema “As in the other arts in America today – painting, poetry, sculpture, theater, where fresh winds have been blowing for the last few years – our rebellion against [...]

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